‘Bad Kids Go to Hell’ airs Saturday on Chiller

Slasher prep school is back in session. “Bad Kids Go to Hell,” the black comedy based on the comic miniseries by Antarctic Press, cuts up the student body Saturday at 6 p.m. CST on Chiller.

San Antonio publisher Antarctic Press originally ran “Bad Kids Go to Hell” in 2009 by writers Matthew Spradlin and Barry Wernick, with art by Anthony Vargas and Chris Allen. Spradlin and Wernick first wrote “Bad Kids” as a 2006 screenplay, but the Writer’s Strike steered the idea to AP instead. The film hit theaters last year.

“Bad Kids” is a lot like “The Breakfast Club,” only way more demented and sad as well as sociopathic. Crestview Academy’s worst students slouch into Saturday detention, only to encounter what looks like a curse dead-set on making them very dead. Further “Breakfast Club” synergy: Judd Nelson stars as the clueless headmaster. BTW, everybody’s downright despicable in this flick, so don’t be surprised if you root for the killer. Spoiler alert: In that regard you won’t be disappointed.

AP also launched a “Bad Kids” comic sequel in February, set four years after the first bloodbath. Those kids were lousy, too.